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How to be a “good” rich person An interview with David Roberts
2 days ago
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Going from research to writing Our third "research with me" session.
3 days ago
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If you have a social mission, go into business An interview with Frederick Freundlich about working at Mondragon, participating in a cooperative,...
6 days ago
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6 days ago
An interview with Frederick Freundlich about working at Mondragon, participating in a cooperative, and building social companies.
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How can the economy work better for us? An interview with Kathryn Anne Edwards.
a week ago
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Expanding your research "Research with me" session two.
a week ago
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Companies are the new City-States That’s why we need to build better ones.
a week ago
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Metanational corporations are redesigning the world map Parag Khanna on metanational corporations and how they are opening borders, reshaping geopolitics,...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Parag Khanna on metanational corporations and how they are opening borders, reshaping geopolitics, and creating a world of interconnected city-states.
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Deep-research an article with me A six-week workshop for writers.
4 weeks ago
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What movement does the world need now? Your answers to December's writing prompt.
a month ago
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We're writing a better future into existence A media collective imagining the future of nation-states, capitalism, and humanity.
a month ago
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What my cooperative media ecosystem could look like My vision for a federated nation of independent writer states.
a month ago
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I’m building a cooperative media ecosystem Owned by writers interested in a better future.
a month ago
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Social Development > Self-Development We need one much more than the other.
a month ago
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This Chinese philosopher reformed politics in one generation Mòzǐ replaced his corrupt government with a humanist one.
a month ago
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Am I a Democrat or a Republican? The case for going label-less.
2 months ago
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Elysian gatherings around the world Picnic with me in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and San Francisco.
2 months ago
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A grassroots political party for the middle The Forward Party, citizen's assemblies, and a creating better independence movement in the US.
2 months ago
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Free speech in the age of social media A discussion about misinformation, echo chambers, media spin, social trolling, and how we can create...
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2 months ago
A discussion about misinformation, echo chambers, media spin, social trolling, and how we can create something better.
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The rich are controlling our government Ok but what can we do about it?
2 months ago
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The "letters to an anarchist" post-mortem Peter and I discuss our letter writing series.
2 months ago
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Are Democrats too liberal? Or too conservative? We're asking the wrong questions.
2 months ago
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Writing Prompt: What movement does the world need right now? And how do we build it?
2 months ago
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Am I an anarchist? Letters to an anarchist, part seven.
3 months ago
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What is the goal of anarchism? Letters to an anarchist, part five.
3 months ago
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How would anarchist societies protect themselves? Letters to an anarchist, part three.
3 months ago
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Will you explain anarchism to me? Letters to an anarchist, part one.
3 months ago
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Is America about to fall? Or flourish? That depends on us.
3 months ago
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Asia and the future of the nation state A discussion with Benjamin Perry.
3 months ago
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It's ok to live in a fantasyland That's the joy of being a writer.
3 months ago
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One year of my work, printed The Elysian Volume II is here.
4 months ago
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One essay could change the future Please support a better media ecosystem.
4 months ago
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Your ideas for improving capitalism A collection of responses to my writing prompt.
4 months ago
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The Cooperatist Manifesto that inspired Mondragon Father José María Arizmendiarrieta didn’t just imagine a better economic system, he built it.
4 months ago
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Yes, Taylor Swift is just as genius as Mary Shelley The video from our live event.
4 months ago
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Do we still want the future desired by the past? Why three socialist utopian novels are still relevant 100 years later.
5 months ago
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Join our upcoming literary salon discussions Our calendar of upcoming events.
5 months ago
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Three classic utopian novels—now collectibles More than 100 years ago, three thinkers imagined what a utopian future might look like in the year...
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More than 100 years ago, three thinkers imagined what a utopian future might look like in the year 2000. Now, their novels are available as a collectible set.
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Mondragon as the new City-State This cooperative could be its own country.
5 months ago
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Writing Prompt: Fix Capitalism By September 30th.
5 months ago
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Hint #3 I'm publishing a new print collection in one week.
5 months ago
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Further reading on employee ownership My notes from the margins of my research.
6 months ago
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Hint #2 I'm publishing a new print collection in two weeks.
6 months ago
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Founders will get much richer by exiting to employees This is how we create a wave of employee ownership.
6 months ago
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Hint #1 I'm publishing a new print collection in three weeks.
6 months ago
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Your visions for the next Renaissance From our May writing prompt.
6 months ago
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Every company should be owned by its employees Central States Manufacturing as a model for employee-ownership.
7 months ago
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How many hours a week do you (actually) spend on your salary job? I can’t find any statistics about this (because how would you?), but most of the people I know who...
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I can’t find any statistics about this (because how would you?), but most of the people I know who work salary jobs work significantly fewer tha…
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You’d still work if you didn’t have to But it would feel more like play.
7 months ago
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Maybe you need to have more fun "Fun" as essential to human flourishing.
7 months ago
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Let's read the Terra Ignota series together Our summer reading is Ada Palmer's feat of utopian worldbuilding.
7 months ago
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Who's qualified to save the world? Two climate dystopias on unlikeable saviors.
7 months ago
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What futuristic projects should I visit around the world? What projects should I study around the world? And would you be interested in showing me around your...
8 months ago
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What projects should I study around the world? And would you be interested in showing me around your city or project? I’d love your help plannin…
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I'm traveling the world to study utopia An update about my life and artistic process.
8 months ago
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My TEDx talk about the future of fiction And publishing.
8 months ago
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“Friends” as the ideal community The one where communes aren't the answer.
9 months ago
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I’d rather have an investor than a publishing contract In pursuit of a better book deal (and record deal and podcast deal...)
9 months ago
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Humanity from the perspective of robots Talking points for our literary salon next week.
9 months ago
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Substack could create the future of books Here’s how that could look.
9 months ago
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Writing Prompt: How do we create the next Renaissance? Something I’ve been thinking a lot about is: How can we fund the next Renaissance? How can we create...
10 months ago
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Something I’ve been thinking a lot about is: How can we fund the next Renaissance? How can we create a world where artists are better funded and…
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Week 8: What communities should know about you? (Write a story about them)
10 months ago
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No one buys books Everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ.
10 months ago
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Week 7: Boost your essays all over the internet
10 months ago
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I built a castle to save the economy You're welcome.
10 months ago
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I'm not going to have kids to save the economy Not on my list of reasons to have children.
10 months ago
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Your alternatives to democracy Entries to the March writing prompt.
10 months ago
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Week 6: Examples of Pitches
10 months ago
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Can we create a wise & enlightened citizenry? We'll need to address cognitive biases if we want to reach Plato's ideal.
10 months ago
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Could AI make us wise? An alternative to the internet making us stupid.
10 months ago
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Week 5: Write one (pitchable) think piece
10 months ago
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The unbearable necessity of being online On loving and loathing the internet as an artist and why we need to be here anyway.
10 months ago
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Please come up with wildly speculative futures Inside my writing philosophy.
10 months ago
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The future according to artists The Parisianer 2050's project to imagine the future in art.
10 months ago
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Week 4: One pitch several places
11 months ago
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I'd like to open a Singapore franchise please? Franchise Cities as an alternative to Charter Cities.
11 months ago
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Idea Labs! An open thread for collaborative worldbuilding Let's brainstorm the future together.
11 months ago
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Week 3: The dream pitch
11 months ago